Author: Jeremy Snyder

This season was the first time there were no undefeated schools on New Year's Day, when Arizona State, TCU, and Villanova all lost. Here are the latest exits from the undefeated ranks back to 1946 (the season shown reflects the year of the championship tournament).
Season
Team
First
loss
Record
before loss
Lost to
(tournament game)
Final
Record
NCAAT outcome
2018
Arizona St.
Dec 30
12-0
at

March 8 is International Women's Day. The sports world has made many leaps towards inclusion and equality -- and numerous setbacks in the process. We salute the trailblazers who kicked the doors down and to those who are removing barriers every single day.
As a fun little exercise, we have assembled

Differences between NFL regular season and postseason playoff rules:
Regular Season
Postseason
Number of periods
1
unlimited
Length of periods
10 minutes
15 minutes
Timeouts per team
2
3 per 2-period "half"
Timing rules
4th quarter
1st quarter for 1st overtime, etc.
If the 1st overtime ends with the teams still tied ...
The game ends in a tie.
2-minute break, switch sides of field typical of

In the 1986 NFC Championship game, the Giants won the coin toss and chose to play the first quarter with the 15-30 mph winds at their backs instead of receiving the opening kickoff. The Redskins failed to make a first down on their first two drives, neither punt made it

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games.
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games.
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games.
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games.
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games.
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

A potentially controversial sequence of events occurred late in the second half of the Packers-Falcons game when it appeared that two different players possibly threw punches that could’ve have warranted ejections.